Wahyu 11:15-18

The Seventh Trumpet

11:15 Then ¹  the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying:

“The kingdom of the world

has become the kingdom of our Lord

and of his Christ, ² 

and he will reign for ever and ever.”

11:16 Then ³  the twenty-four elders who are seated on their thrones before God threw themselves down with their faces to the ground ⁴  and worshiped God 11:17 with these words: ⁵ 

“We give you thanks, Lord God, the All-Powerful, ⁶ 

the one who is and who was,

because you have taken your great power

and begun to reign. ⁷ 

11:18 The ⁸  nations ⁹  were enraged,

but ¹⁰  your wrath has come,

and the time has come for the dead to be judged,

and the time has come to give to your servants, ¹¹ 

the prophets, their reward,

as well as to the saints

and to those who revere ¹²  your name, both small and great,

and the time has come ¹³  to destroy those who destroy ¹⁴  the earth.”

Wahyu 20:4-6

20:4 Then ¹⁵  I saw thrones and seated on them were those who had been given authority to judge. ¹⁶  I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. These ¹⁷  had not worshiped the beast or his image and had refused to receive his mark on their forehead or hand. They ¹⁸  came to life ¹⁹  and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 20:5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.) ²⁰  This is the first resurrection. 20:6 Blessed and holy is the one who takes part ²¹  in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, ²²  but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

[11:15]  ¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[11:15]  ² tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[11:16]  ³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[11:16]  ⁴ tn Grk “they fell down on their faces.” BDAG 815 s.v. πίπτω 1.b.α.ב. has “fall down, throw oneself to the ground as a sign of devotion or humility, before high-ranking persons or divine beings.”

[11:17]  ⁵ tn Grk “saying.”

[11:17]  ⁶ tn On this word BDAG 755 s.v. παντοκράτωρ states, “the Almighty, All-Powerful, Omnipotent (One) only of God…(ὁ) κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὁ π. …Rv 1:8; 4:8; 11:17; 15:3; 16:7; 21:22.”

[11:17]  ⁷ tn The aorist verb ἐβασίλευσας (ebasileusa") has been translated ingressively.

[11:18]  ⁸ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[11:18]  ⁹ tn Or “The Gentiles” (the same Greek word may be translated “Gentiles” or “nations”).

[11:18]  ¹⁰ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

[11:18]  ¹¹ tn See the note on the word “servants” in 1:1.

[11:18]  ¹² tn Grk “who fear.”

[11:18]  ¹³ tn The words “the time has come” do not occur except at the beginning of the verse; the phrase has been repeated for emphasis and contrast. The Greek has one finite verb (“has come”) with a compound subject (“your wrath,” “the time”), followed by three infinitive clauses (“to be judged,” “to give,” “to destroy”). The rhetorical power of the repetition of the finite verb in English thus emulates the rhetorical power of its lone instance in Greek.

[11:18]  ¹⁴ tn Or “who deprave.” There is a possible wordplay here on two meanings for διαφθείρω (diafqeirw), with the first meaning “destroy” and the second meaning either “to ruin” or “to make morally corrupt.” See L&N 20.40.

[20:4]  ¹⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.

[20:4]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “I saw thrones, and those seated on them, and judgment was given to them.” BDAG 567 s.v. κρίμα 3 says, “judging, judgment, the κρίμα ἐδόθη αὐτοῖς authority to judge was given to them Rv 20:4.”

[20:4]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “God, and who.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation by supplying the pronoun “these” as subject.

[20:4]  ¹⁸ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[20:4]  ¹⁹ tn On the use of the aorist ἔζησαν (ezhsan) BDAG 425 s.v. ζάω 1.a.β says, “of dead persons who return to life become alive again: of humans in general (3 Km 17:23) Mt 9:18; Ac 9:41; 20:12; Rv 20:4, 5.”

[20:5]  ²⁰ sn This statement appears to be a parenthetical comment by the author.

[20:6]  ²¹ tn Grk “who has a share.”

[20:6]  ²² tn The shift from the singular pronoun (“the one”) to the plural (“them”) in the passage reflects the Greek text: The singular participle ὁ ἔχων (Jo ecwn) is followed by the plural pronoun τούτων (toutwn). In the interests of English style, this is obscured in most modern translations except the NASB.